In 1928, Carl Jung, quoting Heraclitus, wrote that we, humans, are running into the opposite direction we should or could go. My small mind prevents me to understand the ideas of those two great thinkers, but that doesn’t mean I can feel the truth in what they are saying. I can’t express it, but I f…
Blog posts April 2018
Las máquinas ya leen nuestra mente y nosotros no leemos las de ellas
Hace 90 años, Carl Jung escribía, citando a Heráclito, que la humanidad corre en la dirección opuesta a la que quiere o debe dirigirse. Mi mente pequeña de poco sirve para entender las ideas de uno u otro destacado pensador, pero eso no significa que de alguna manera uno no pueda sentir, aunque no v…
"No se debe generalizar y todo el mundo ya lo sabe"
Alguna vez escuché decir a un tío mío âYa te dije un millón de veces que no seas exageradoâ. Se trataba, obviamente, de una broma basada en la contradicción interna del pensamiento expresado en la frase. Bromas aparte, cada vez me encuentro con más personas que usan frases similares y no lo hace…
“You shouldn’t generalize and everybody in the world knows that”
Years ago, my uncle told me, “I told you a million times not to exaggerate.” It was, of course, a joke based in the obvious self-contradiction of the thought expressed in that statement. But it is not a joke the increasing number of people using similar expressions and fully unaware of the self-cont…
The undeniable problem of our anxious, distracted, and empty minds
There should be no doubts that we live at a time when our prehistorical brain can hardly handle the multiple and unexpected challenges we now face and that we were not designed to face. We were designed to light a fire inside a cave, not to save a techno-globalized, overpopulated planet from self-de…
El innegable problema de mentes ansiosas, distraídas y vacías
Pocas dudas caben, si alguna, que vivimos en una época en la que nuestro cerebro prehistórico resulta de limita ayuda para entender y responder a impensables desafíos, para los que no fuimos diseñados. Encender fuego dentro de una cueva está a nuestro alcance. Salvar un planeta globalizado y tecnifi…
¿Qué significa vivir en una época transplanetaria?
Entiendo (limitadamente) qué significa vivir en una sociedad post-verdad, en la que ya no escuchamos sino nuestras propias ideas, que aceptamos acríticamente. Y entiendo algo de qué significa vivir en una época post-democracia (los ejemplos abundan). Pero ¿qué significa vivir en una época post-plan…
What does it mean to live in a post-planet era?
I have a limited understanding of what it means to live in a post-truth era, that is, at a time when we only pay attention to our own ideas and never analyze them. And I also have some understanding of what it means to live in a post-democracy world (many examples around us.) But, what does it mean …
Sometimes, the universe hears our thoughts
A few days ago, a good friend of mine invited me to have lunch with him because he wanted to share information about the important progress he was making in a community-oriented project he began decades ago. I immediately accepted the invitation, but I didn’t like the restaurant he selected, because…
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